Boundary Vortex Formation in Polarization-Modulated Orthogonal Smectic Liquid Crystals

DOI10.1137/19M1301618MaRDI QIDQ5123484zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Carlos J. García-Cervera, T. Giorgi, S. Joo

Publication date 29 September 2020

Published in SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1137/19M1301618

zbMATH Keywords

bent-core moleculesboundary vorticesliquid crystalsnumerical gradient flow

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic behavior of solutions to PDEs (35B40) Variational methods for elliptic systems (35J50) Boundary value problems for second-order elliptic systems (35J57) Ginzburg-Landau equations (35Q56) Liquid crystals (76A15)

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